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The Adventures of Alyx

Alyx, a warrior and assassin, accepts a job as bodyguard, sails with Blackbeard, works for a sorcerer and acts as a Trans-Temp agent in a future commercial war

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Page 20The floor, to the glory of Yp, was smoking in half a dozen places. Stepping
carefully, Alyx picked up the pail of seawater kept always ready in a corner of the
cabin and emptied it onto the smoldering floor, but at that instant — so diabolical
are ...

Page 21Just under the waterline." "Stay here," said Alyx. Leaning against the wall, she
made her way to the cold firebox. Two bolts held it to the floor. "No good there,"
she said. With the same exasperating slowness, she hauled herself up the ladder
...

Page 263The seal-woman hissed on the floor, like steam coming out of a leaky radiator.
She did not get up but lay on her back, eyes blinking, a woman encased in fat. "
You?" said my friend insultingly. "You will stain the carpet." The seal-woman
hissed ...

LibraryThing Review

User Review - questbird - LibraryThing

Alyx is the hero of these five tales. She is fearless, determined, amoral, a complex character. No man can detain her. In the earlier stories she is Alyx the Pickpocket or Alyx the Murderer; later she ...Read full review

LibraryThing Review

User Review - wrmjr66 - LibraryThing

The Adventures of Alyx is a collection of four short stories and a novella. The first three short stories follow a small-time tough named Alyx on a series of typical fantasy adventures. Alyx is an ...Read full review

About the author (1986)

Joanna Russ was born in New York City on February 22, 1937. She received a degree in English from Cornell University in 1957 and a MFA in playwriting from the Yale Drama School in 1960. She taught at various colleges and universities during her lifetime including a long stint at the University of Washington in Seattle. She was a critic and science fiction writer best known for books of criticism such as The Female Man (1975) and How to Suppress Women's Writing (1984) as well as the novel And Chaos Died (1970). She died on April 29, 2011 at the age of 74.